The day after Tie Niu and Zhou Kang came back, Xu Chen's large grocery store, which had been preparing for a long time, finally opened!

On that day, Xu Chen asked Mu Chun to go and send the merchants who pledged the house and the store at the auction, and the contract said that it was about the grocery store.

It stated that Xu Chen only had to rent their shop and house for five years on the pretext of opening a grocery store, and after five years, the original items would be returned. At the same time, because of the wide variety of goods required by large grocery stores, it was difficult for Xu Chen to dredge so many purchase channels for a while, so they asked them to use their own purchase channels to provide Xu Chen with some goods for free, and the period was also five years.

After all, with these shops and houses, although the goods provided in those five years cost a lot, they still took advantage of it!

It's not that the businessmen didn't think about why Xu Chen signed such a loss-making contract with them, but after being made crazy by Xu Chen, they seized a glimmer of life in despair, and these businessmen no longer had the heart to explore Xu Chen's intentions.

The large grocery store is actually a store made by Xu Chen in imitation of the supermarket of later generations, a store that sells everything!

Of course, because there are no cameras and no detectors, Xu Chen doesn't dare to let the guests directly touch the goods, although he doesn't care about the income of this grocery store, but he still has to be real, otherwise who will believe it?

Therefore, this grocery store is said to be a supermarket, but in fact, it is more like a big store in the village and town in the later generations, the counter is big enough, and all the goods are placed on the shelves or in the window, as for the large number of customers, it is just a few more guys!

Xu Chen's grocery store this time is actually more than a dozen opened together, this is only the first batch, there will be several batches in the future, and the places picked are not those prosperous areas, but some densely populated residential areas, and even some poor people's settlements.

Such a consumer group naturally cannot set the price very high, so Xu Chen can basically be said to be operating with small profits.

"I'm afraid you can't make money by opening this kind of shop, right?" Xu Fan, who was invited by Xu Chen, or Xu Fan, who came to the door because Xu Chen skipped class, looked at the environment around the grocery store and said to Xu Chen.

He knows his apprentice's ability to make money, at the auction a few days ago, Wang Xian went to his house to talk to him as soon as he got the letter, when he knew that his apprentice had turned a worthless wasteland into a feng shui treasure in just one month, and he actually earned a year's tax payment from Datang at one time, which ...... What is this to make money? It is clearly a money grab! The Mint Bureau of the Ministry of Industry did not make money so quickly!

Therefore, now seeing that Xu Chen has spent such a big effort to open this grocery store that basically can't make three or two people, Xu Fan is puzzled for a while!

"How can it be? Teacher, don't underestimate these needles and threads, they make a little less money, but they can't stand up to a large amount! Besides, I'm just opening the shop first, and there will be other operations in the future, and it's not just these residential areas, but also those shops on the streets! Those shops can also sell some rare treasures or something, and they won't make it back!"

"We don't want to make much money when we open a store in this kind of place, the key is to spread the reputation of the store! What does the grocery store rely on? That is the word 'all'! The more things and the more kinds of things, the more people will come to patronize you, right?"

"When this fame spreads, giving people the idea that as long as they buy something and come to our store, they will definitely be able to find it, then they won't be able to make money!"

Xu Chen explained to Xu Fan very patiently, and while he said, he showed him some specific examples, that posture, Xu Fan had never seen him so energetic!

Xu Fan looked at the big apprentice who was talking endlessly in front of him, his eyes slowly narrowed, and he had already thought in his mind: "This kid is wrong! According to what he said, this shop can indeed make money, but the initial investment is larger, but it is a long-term business, which is also in line with this kid's character of always putting a long line to catch big fish." ”

Xu Fan is not a nerd, he has a deep knowledge of these ways of the world, so Xu Chen can understand these things, and after thinking about it for a while, he also feels that Xu Chen's attention is good, just looking at this guy's elated appearance, Xu Fan always has a feeling that he wants to pit people again!

It's a reflex that has been brought to him by many experiences, and there is no reason for him to feel this way!

And when Xu Fanzheng was a little impatient listening to Xu Chen's speech, he looked around, and found that the shopkeeper next to them seemed to be calculating the accounts, but in fact, his body kept leaning this way, and whenever Xu Chen said something specific, the shopkeeper's hand on the abacus would be slower, and even once when Xu Chen said something new, the shopkeeper frowned slightly.

Xu Chen happened to have his back to this shopkeeper, so naturally he couldn't see his abnormality, but Xu Fan was also a person?

Then, Xu Fan looked at the shopkeeper again, and then at Xu Chen, who was still talking, and a thought came to his heart in an instant: "This kid really wants to trick people again! These words are not said to me at all!"

Xu Fan's feeling is still very accurate! Because the shopkeeper is none other than Mei Yun!

On the same day, after Xu Chen went to visit Mei Yun, he stayed in Mei Mansion for more than an hour, and then recruited Mei Yun to be the shopkeeper of a grocery store, this incident has puzzled many people, thinking that he Mei Yun is also a business tycoon, and there was almost no loss in the last auction, but the group of people under him were scattered, but with his remaining family wealth, it is impossible to deign to be a shopkeeper!

But he still came!

The opening of the grocery store is very lively, after all, it is for the ordinary people, although there are not those dignitaries and nobles, but they can't stand the enthusiasm of the people, so although today's sales are not much, but every store in the city is overcrowded, at least the popularity is enough!

In the evening, after the grocery store closed, Mei Yun packed up the account book, got on the ox cart prepared by Mei Lao for him at the door, and walked on the way home, the grocery store was not far from home, and after a while, the ox cart drove into the gate of Mei Mansion, and as soon as the gate was closed, there was no movement, until the next morning, Mei Yun stepped on the ox cart at the door of the house again.

"Big brother, Mei Yun's old guy is really not honest!"

In Xu Chen's study, several brothers were there, and Hao Xin, who was dressed in black, was standing there reporting at the moment.

"Whose person is he?" Xu Chen asked.

"Lu family!" Hao Xin replied.

"The Lu family...... Little dog, you go on!" Xu Chen said.

"I followed him for a day, this old guy is so careful! There was no movement for a day, and he didn't contact anyone, and when he went home after closing, the ox cart didn't stop all the way, and I followed them until I reached their door before I realized that something was wrong, and the smell of him from the ox cart was faint!" Hao Xin said.

"This is natural, how can he let others contact him for such an important matter?" Lu Hao interjected.

"Then how did you find him again?" asked Xu Chen.

"Hehe!" Hao Xin smiled proudly and said, "Big brother, have you forgotten that my puppy's nose is really smarter than a dog! That old guy thinks that if he takes off his clothes and puts them on the ox cart, he won't be able to smell them? As long as he leaves the body temperature of the human body, the smell on the clothes is different from the smell on the human body!"

"Then I searched all the way back, and finally saw a secret door in the dark corner of an alley, and I don't know how the old man got out of the moving cart, and I guess there was some mechanism on the ox cart. ”

"Later, I entered the secret door and walked along the secret passage, and after leaving the secret passage, I happened to come to the back door of the Lu family, and after sniffing carefully in the same place for a while, I was sure that this person had entered the compound of the Lu family. ”

Hao Xin gradually told the process of tracking all the way.

After listening to this, Xu Chen nodded and praised: "Not bad! This time I want to make a great contribution to you!"

"Really, what kind of merit is it?" Hao Xin was still a teenager after all, and when he heard that there was a reward, he immediately became interested.

"Okay, little dog, this matter of rewarding meritorious deeds must be done until the matter is done, right? You go back to rest first, and the brothers still have to talk about things!" Zhou Kang said with a smile when he saw this.

"Oh......" Hao Xin heard this, lowered his head and walked away.

"Big brother, how did you find out that there was something wrong with this Mei Yun in the first place?" Tie Niu asked aloud.

"No! I never found anything wrong with him, but it was easy to see from his information that there was someone behind this person, but I really don't know who it was, but he was able to make the business so big, I guess the people behind him are probably not small among these two people!" Xu Chen replied.

Lu Hao smiled and said, "That's why the eldest brother went to find this Mei Yun to be the big shopkeeper, in order to release some of our news." ”

"Yes, no matter if we tell the truth or not, this Mei Yun is also a smart person, so he will naturally make a judgment, so I will say the truth and lie together, anyway, it is something that does not matter, let him pass it back, if the other party believes it, it will be miserable, but if he doesn't believe it...... That's going to be even worse!" After finishing speaking, Xu Chen also laughed.

The Lu family, Lu Zongtai's study.

As soon as Mei Yun left, Lu Zongtai couldn't help but say to his younger brother Lu Zongbao: "What does he want to do with this Xu Chen?"

Lu Zongbao pondered for a long time, but he still couldn't do anything, shook his head and said: "I don't know! Mei Yun didn't deliberately let us out, it was this guy who took the initiative to come to the door, Mei Yun himself felt that he was put by him Xu Chen a few days ago, so he thought about finding it back, and it didn't have much to do with us, so I didn't say anything." ”

"Then what does this Xu Chen mean?" Lu Zongtai asked with a frown.

"I don't know what he means, but the problem is that this guy just runs a grocery store, why did he use this method to notify us?" Lu Zongbao actually wondered about this question.

"Are you saying that he deliberately said those words to Mei Yun?" Lu Zongtai asked in surprise.

"Of course, that Xu Chen is not stupid, why is he talking so loudly when he has nothing to do!" Lu Zongbao said with a smile.

Subsequently, this idea took root in Lu Zongbao's heart!

Otherwise, the smarter the person, the more he can't help but think about it......